I too would be interested in hearing about FreeBSD. I am new to the LUG... when and where is the next meeting taking place? Thank you. ~Andrew On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:39 AM, <canito at dalan.us> wrote: > > Quoting Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs at gmail.com>: > > Since the next meeting is all about ZFS and I will be bringing my machine >> running FreeBSD and ZFS on root, and because of the release of >> FreeBSD 10 (builds have started; I expect there will be an official >> announcement in the next day or two), I thought I'd give a short talk on >> FreeBSD if there is some interest. Things I would cover: >> >> - Philosophical differences between Linux and the BSDs (mostly design and >> technical aspects, but I will touch on licensing) >> - Upgrades/updates to the base system vs. updates/upgrades to third-party >> software and package management (ports/pkgng) in FreeBSD >> - Some cool new things in FreeBSD 10 >> - An overview of the other BSDs >> - Any questions you may have >> >> I'm open to suggestions as well, so let me know if you'd like me to go >> over anything else. >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > Hi Andrew- > > I'd be interested to know where FreeBSD stands as a desktop? In years past > I read that PCBSD was making strides, but why would I want to it as a > desktop now? I don't know if this is an appropriate venue to ask this > question? I know FreeBSD rawks as a stand alone server. One complain from a > friend year back is that it didn't really have a strong support for > virtualization and clustering. Also, interested in hearing the original > topic on ZFS. > > Thanks, > SDA > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140117/d00ac3be/attachment.html>